I can understand that. I personally would prefer to avoid conflict and would have simply asked where I could stop, and moved there. When dealing with the police attitude is everything, far more people talk themselves into tickets than out of them. Fwiw I believe their is an offence of something like failing to follow a police officers instruction, so if the cop tells you to move there doesn't specifically have to be a restriction. Seems frightfully petty though.
in which case, why didn't he just say, "you are parked on a yellow line"? That would have ended the conversation with no need to check anything.
No doubt Phil. But you are off the scale for compliance. No speeding tickets and no parking tickets ever? You must be in a fraction of 1%.
I saw a police stop programme a while ago whee they stopped a guy for having a black and silver rear plate on his car. They pulled out if a junction, thought they saw him on his phone do span round to nick him (this is when they saw the black and silver plate) as soon as they pulled up behind they saw he was rubbing his ear - not an offence, but pulled him for the plate (quite correctly) The colossal mistake they made was to claim they stopped him for the plate. The guy said they couldn't possibly have seen it as the front one was white. He felt like he was stopped because he matched a profile. Had the cops been honest and explained they thought he was on a phone (hence the u turn) then saw the plate the guy would have had far less reason to feel aggrieved - the black and silver rear plate is illegal, so explaining the reason for the u turn (which was quite legitimate, even if it did reveal that he was innocent of that) there would have been a lot less reason for animosity.
nah yellow kerb with a bit of tarmac after it before the path………:wink: it runs as far along ring way road as i could be arsed to look….
Ahhh. Perfect example though of how a simple situation was made more complicated by what I expect was an inexperienced cop. The guy never did question the ticket, just why he was stopped (a perfectly reasonable question)
Wrong part of Ringway Rd. If you stick in 90 Ringway Road that is the spot. Buuuuut ATM there is loads of roadworks going on as they are building a 9000 space car park... Right under the flight path. Literally that whole area is under construction so out of date Google images dont really help.
i remember them arguing the toss over why…..at the end of the day people can be as pissy as they want but the fact is any vehicle on the road is a good enough reason for a cop to stop it legitimately theme the rules...but an offence is an offence.
i did search and it looks like there are security rules in place especially during the road works…….research security rules manchester airport i saw something there about no private vehicle is allowed to stop on any airport road or perimeter road..
Indeed, you can seal your fate (and usually do) in the first ten seconds, so co operation is always the best policy.
Undoubtedly, no question. The majority of cops are very hard working pillars of the community, but there is bound to be the odd rogue purely on the law of averages
Manchester Airport Maps, Directions and Guides - Interactive map "its is a security regulation that private cars may not stop anywhere on the airport or terminal roads or forecourts except where setting down or picking up passengers"
Get this in Bristol as well. If you park in the car park for more than 10 seconds it costs....so people hang around outside. Coppers get tetchy as well....I must confess if I was 20 years younger id give a load of static as I had nothing better to do, my record years ago is getting 3 producer's in one night...I rock. These days I just like a quiet life. But, fair play for sticking to the man.
Surely thought that must refer to just the roads around the terminals which is common sense. How does that effect people visiting the residential housing close by?
